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Harriet Grae's avatar

Thank you so much for bringing these human stories to life. What is happening there is so shocking, beyond words.

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Tim Lieder's avatar

Not really. Hamas murders Jews and then hides behind civilians. Civilians get killed in the crossfire and useful idiots like this motherfucker write articles accusing Israel of being homicidal.

Same old bullshit from the same Nazis who like the torch Jewish homes.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/john-cheevers-shady-hill-stories

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Grimalkin's avatar

Although I have been aware and disgusted by what I've heard of this continuing genocide, your words today feel like wounds that will never heal. The perpetrators of these war crimes against other humans have become what they have hated most: persecutors of Jews by rabid bigots throughout history. Is this revenge? Sounds like it.

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Tim Lieder's avatar

There are more "Palestinians" alive today than 2 years ago, but yeah, keep calling it a genocide because that makes you sound like a saint when you celebrate rape and murder.

Where were you when one of your fellow Hamas lovers firebombed Governor Shapiro's house?

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/john-cheevers-shady-hill-stories

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Jack Migdal's avatar

Well written Jasper, thanks for digging in on such a sensitive and complicated subject that so many do not want to acknowledge, and even more cannot figure out how to reconcile…

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Tim Lieder's avatar

IT's not complicated. Jasper is a Hamas shill trying to make you forget about all the victims on October 7 including the hostages. Hamas could free the hostages today and end the war, but Jasper wouldn't like that because he couldn't lie about Israel.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/john-cheevers-shady-hill-stories

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Jennifer Armerding's avatar

Thank you!! So coherently explained and supported with incontrovertible evidence.

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Tim Lieder's avatar

People die in wars!!!! Holy shit!!!! THat's sooooooooooo earthshattering.

But you do forget that Hamas was using these hospitals and ambulances as bases.

Or don't you care about those troubling details?

Because you think that Hamas is the "resistance" and don't want to think too hard about how it started this war by committing mass murder and rape?

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/john-cheevers-shady-hill-stories

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Nina's avatar

Such a moving and important piece, thank you.

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Tim Lieder's avatar

It's only moving if you're an antisemitic bitch eager to believe that Jews are monsters who kill babies for fun.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/happy-pesach-holiday-extra

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Dan Nelson's avatar

The latest Pew polling show that the percentage of Americans who disapprove of Israel has risen from 43% to 52% and that only 32% of Americans trust Netanyahu to do the right thing. The 32% matches up exactly with the percentage of Israelis (68%) who believe hostage releases should take priority over further hostilities.

Meanwhile, from today’s edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

“Over 250 reservists and alumni from the Israeli army's elite intelligence Unit 8200 issued a letter calling on the government to prioritize the hostages' release over continuing the war in Gaza, a day after a similar petition by air force reservists. PM Netanyahu accused "radicals operated by foreign-funded organizations" of creating the letters to topple his government. CNN reported that Netanyahu's appointment of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer to lead hostage talks has led to a "significant difference in momentum." UNRWA said nearly 400,000 people had been displaced in Gaza since the fighting resumed. 68 percent of Israelis believe the government should prioritize the hostages' release over continuing the war, according to a new poll. Egyptian officials reportedly said that Gaza cease-fire negotiations had "accelerated" and had seen a "temporary breakthrough." The IDF ordered residents of several Gaza City and Khan Yunis neighborhoods to evacuate. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said 26 people had been killed in the previous 24 hours. An IDF soldier was seriously wounded in southern Gaza. A 12-year-old boy in East Jerusalem was seriously wounded, with local witnesses saying he was struck by a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by police.”

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Tim Lieder's avatar

UNRWA is a terrrorist organization whose members took part in October 7.

But keep quoting Haaretz and you can make your dumb leftist friends think that you are cute.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/happy-pesach-holiday-extra

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Dan Nelson's avatar

Oops. I’ll try to stay within the bounds of your echo chamber, where name calling and attempts at bullying are the order of the day. Please forgive me.

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Medina's avatar

I agree. The lie becomes the point because the spectacle needs to be maintained. I think they already know they lost the PR narrative, and yet Israel allocated $150 million in 2025 for its hasbara campaign. I am hesitant to say that this amount of money for their hasbara campaign is meant to convince hearts and minds & sway public opinion.

So it makes me wonder - since there is no accountability and they know they can do what they want, what's the deeper purpose of maintaining this narrative and spectacle? You need an audience for your spectacle. What's it all for?

I wonder if it's related to the self-reinforcing worldview where Israelis are taught that not only are Palestinians antisemitic, but also the entire world because Zionism frames Anti-Semitism as some inherent global force that can suddenly spring up anywhere in the world.

It creates a framework where Israel's actions are not only justified, but also necessary. Commit evil for the higher good. If the evil is necessary because your existence is under existential threat, then your cognitive dissonance is resolved. The barbarity of the crimes that make most humans shudder becomes a footnote, and the lies resolve any potential cognitive dissonance that might arise.

Maybe this can partly explain why anything can be justified through the eyes of a Zionist - including the controlled demolition of a cancer hospital in Gaza.

It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. A prison you've built for yourself rooted in the belief that the entire world hates you because of the belief that Anti-Semitism is a unique evil that will never be stamped out from this world. This is what Zionism propagates. And it looks like Israeli citizens are indoctrinated into this from a very young age. Israel isn't a Jewish state. It is THE Jewish state. One word changes the entire meaning. Language shapes perception. THE Jewish state allows Israel to claim a constant existential threat to its existence.

So, the spreading of misinformation isn't just a means to an end anymore. It is the goal. It's a performance. I don't have much hope for the near future, but I do believe that every performance built on a lie eventually crumbles.

I don't want to think this or go there. I shudder at the thought. But for the sake of argument, let's say they manage to expel every Palestinian from Gaza. When the dust settles - what then? Zionism is predicated on the belief in global existential threats to the survival of THE Jewish state, which means territorial expansion is built into its ideology. The lies - the point of the spectacle - serve a narrative. The identity is upheld. Keep the spectacle going so we are always reminded of who their enemy is. So, this means you always need an enemy. But what happens to your identity when you eliminate your enemy? An identity formed in opposition to something is always riddled with contradictions. So the lie becomes the point - a performance and a spectacle necessary to sustain the justification for its existence.

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Tim Lieder's avatar

A Zionist is a Jew who doesn't trust the good intention of the goyim.

Especially not the goyim who write walls of text goysplaining why antisemitism is no big deal while spreading Hamas propaganda.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/happy-pesach-holiday-extra

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Dillon's avatar

The US and Israelis are taught from a young age to kill and destroy so I’m not surprised their investigations go nowhere

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Tim Lieder's avatar

YOu a really that stupid? Israelis are taught from a young age to minimize civilian casualties.

But yeah, conspiracy theories are more fun. If you can blame the Jews, you don't have to think.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/happy-pesach-holiday-extra

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Tim Lieder's avatar

Well, this is some Hamas written bullshit. Can't wait for you to tell us about how all the rapes and murders on October 7 were also Jewish lies.

Nazi bitch.

https://marlowe1.substack.com/p/john-cheevers-shady-hill-stories

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